Armie Eros Fletcher
@armiefletcher.bsky.social
What holds. What slips. What we say in the dark.
Writing as Armie Eros Fletcher
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Writing as Armie Eros Fletcher
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What does a raised credit limit have to do with fear, propaganda, and migration?
Maybe nothing. Maybe everything.
New from What Holds Still:
Still Trusted
What a raised credit limit reveals about absence, risk, and narrative.
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Maybe nothing. Maybe everything.
New from What Holds Still:
Still Trusted
What a raised credit limit reveals about absence, risk, and narrative.
whatholdsstill.substack.com/p/still-trus...
Still Trusted
What a raised credit limit reveals about absence, risk, and narrative.
whatholdsstill.substack.com
June 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
What does a raised credit limit have to do with fear, propaganda, and migration?
Maybe nothing. Maybe everything.
New from What Holds Still:
Still Trusted
What a raised credit limit reveals about absence, risk, and narrative.
whatholdsstill.substack.com/p/still-trus...
Maybe nothing. Maybe everything.
New from What Holds Still:
Still Trusted
What a raised credit limit reveals about absence, risk, and narrative.
whatholdsstill.substack.com/p/still-trus...
A new essay about land, labor, tightropes, and what it means to reenter a life shaped by extraction.
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Highest and Best
When Capitalism Confuses Collapse for Excellence
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May 20, 2025 at 8:45 AM
A new essay about land, labor, tightropes, and what it means to reenter a life shaped by extraction.
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What if the rare things we're seeking are already right in front of us? Sometimes, it’s not about searching harder—it’s about learning to see with fresh eyes.
“The Four-Leaf Clover and the Art of Seeing” ⬇️
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“The Four-Leaf Clover and the Art of Seeing” ⬇️
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The Four-Leaf Clover and the Art of Seeing
What We Miss When We Only Look Ahead
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May 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
What if the rare things we're seeking are already right in front of us? Sometimes, it’s not about searching harder—it’s about learning to see with fresh eyes.
“The Four-Leaf Clover and the Art of Seeing” ⬇️
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“The Four-Leaf Clover and the Art of Seeing” ⬇️
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Sometimes, the smallest gestures—like a cough—say more than we realize. It’s not just about protecting our space; it’s about recognizing when a boundary becomes a cry for help. Read my latest on the fine line between self-protection and connection.
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Coughing in the Stall: The Subtle Art of Protecting and Participating
Exploring the quiet moments that redefine how we share and guard our space.
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May 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Sometimes, the smallest gestures—like a cough—say more than we realize. It’s not just about protecting our space; it’s about recognizing when a boundary becomes a cry for help. Read my latest on the fine line between self-protection and connection.
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The quiet power of being unseen, and the frustration that shapes us when our truths go unrecognized. Sometimes, realness isn’t about being seen—it’s about what you build in the silence. Existence Beyond Recognition
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#Ghosts #Recognition #Identity
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#Ghosts #Recognition #Identity
How Do You Know You're Real?
Existence Beyond Recognition—How Frustration and Silence Teach Us to Know Ourselves.
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April 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The quiet power of being unseen, and the frustration that shapes us when our truths go unrecognized. Sometimes, realness isn’t about being seen—it’s about what you build in the silence. Existence Beyond Recognition
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#Ghosts #Recognition #Identity
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#Ghosts #Recognition #Identity
Breaking News: Study finds that anxiety is caused by thinking about the future. But here’s the thing—we’ve been living in a future we didn’t even notice being sold to us. #SoftLanding
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Breaking News: Study Finds That Anxiety is Caused by Thinking About The Future
How the future is soft-landed daily, and wellness tells us not to pay attention.
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April 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Breaking News: Study finds that anxiety is caused by thinking about the future. But here’s the thing—we’ve been living in a future we didn’t even notice being sold to us. #SoftLanding
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Reflecting on this week’s essays: peeling back layers of healing, power, and transformation. It’s been a journey of digging deeper, challenging systems, and learning together. Grateful for everyone joining in—let’s keep the conversation going. #WhatHoldsStill
April 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Reflecting on this week’s essays: peeling back layers of healing, power, and transformation. It’s been a journey of digging deeper, challenging systems, and learning together. Grateful for everyone joining in—let’s keep the conversation going. #WhatHoldsStill
The U.S.–China tariff war is a strategy of domination, not negotiation. In my latest essay, I break down how boundaries create tension rather than resolution. The Consent Doctrine is live. #boundaries #consent #TradeWar2025 whatholdsstill.substack.com/p/the-consen...
The Consent Doctrine: Why Tariffs Fail and Boundaries Hurt
We’ve turned boundaries into a moral ideal.
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April 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The U.S.–China tariff war is a strategy of domination, not negotiation. In my latest essay, I break down how boundaries create tension rather than resolution. The Consent Doctrine is live. #boundaries #consent #TradeWar2025 whatholdsstill.substack.com/p/the-consen...
Power without consent is domination. We praise the clean break because it spares us the mess—but in doing so, we miss the real work of building power and trust. The Consent Doctrine is live now.
whatholdsstill.substack.com/p/the-consen...
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The Consent Doctrine: Why Tariffs Fail and Boundaries Hurt
We’ve turned boundaries into a moral ideal.
whatholdsstill.substack.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Power without consent is domination. We praise the clean break because it spares us the mess—but in doing so, we miss the real work of building power and trust. The Consent Doctrine is live now.
whatholdsstill.substack.com/p/the-consen...
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This Easter, I’m reflecting on how healing is a journey, not a single moment. It’s about moving forward, one step at a time.
Read here:
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#HealingJourney #PersonalGrowth #Vulnerability #Easter #Resurrection
Read here:
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#HealingJourney #PersonalGrowth #Vulnerability #Easter #Resurrection
Rolling Away the Stone
How the Quiet Moments of Healing Lead to New Life
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April 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
This Easter, I’m reflecting on how healing is a journey, not a single moment. It’s about moving forward, one step at a time.
Read here:
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#HealingJourney #PersonalGrowth #Vulnerability #Easter #Resurrection
Read here:
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#HealingJourney #PersonalGrowth #Vulnerability #Easter #Resurrection
I wrote this in the middle of the night.
Not to stay awake—
but to fall asleep.
It started as a way to calm my body.
It became a poem.
What Happens at Night
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Not to stay awake—
but to fall asleep.
It started as a way to calm my body.
It became a poem.
What Happens at Night
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What Happens at Night
Not an essay. A poem. A moment that held.
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April 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I wrote this in the middle of the night.
Not to stay awake—
but to fall asleep.
It started as a way to calm my body.
It became a poem.
What Happens at Night
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Not to stay awake—
but to fall asleep.
It started as a way to calm my body.
It became a poem.
What Happens at Night
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A poem drops Thursday.
Not an essay. Not a take.
Just something I wrote to stay awake.
It’s called What Happens at Night.
It’s about panic, memory, rhythm—and the body trying to survive its own knowing.
Not an essay. Not a take.
Just something I wrote to stay awake.
It’s called What Happens at Night.
It’s about panic, memory, rhythm—and the body trying to survive its own knowing.
April 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A poem drops Thursday.
Not an essay. Not a take.
Just something I wrote to stay awake.
It’s called What Happens at Night.
It’s about panic, memory, rhythm—and the body trying to survive its own knowing.
Not an essay. Not a take.
Just something I wrote to stay awake.
It’s called What Happens at Night.
It’s about panic, memory, rhythm—and the body trying to survive its own knowing.
Still sitting with this one.
It started as a conversation.
It became a question about power, softness, and the kind of critique we’re taught not to voice.
Beautiful, Billionaire-Adjacent and Above Critique
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It started as a conversation.
It became a question about power, softness, and the kind of critique we’re taught not to voice.
Beautiful, Billionaire-Adjacent and Above Critique
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Beautiful, Billionaire-Adjacent and Above Critique
The women orbiting power who almost never get a headline that sticks.
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April 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Still sitting with this one.
It started as a conversation.
It became a question about power, softness, and the kind of critique we’re taught not to voice.
Beautiful, Billionaire-Adjacent and Above Critique
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It started as a conversation.
It became a question about power, softness, and the kind of critique we’re taught not to voice.
Beautiful, Billionaire-Adjacent and Above Critique
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But harmlessness isn’t truth.
It’s comfort—ours, not theirs.
And critique doesn’t have to be cruelty.
It’s comfort—ours, not theirs.
And critique doesn’t have to be cruelty.
April 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
But harmlessness isn’t truth.
It’s comfort—ours, not theirs.
And critique doesn’t have to be cruelty.
It’s comfort—ours, not theirs.
And critique doesn’t have to be cruelty.
I hesitated to publish it.
Because I’m a man.
Because critique feels risky.
Because we’ve been taught that political caution is a kind of virtue.
Because I’m a man.
Because critique feels risky.
Because we’ve been taught that political caution is a kind of virtue.
April 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I hesitated to publish it.
Because I’m a man.
Because critique feels risky.
Because we’ve been taught that political caution is a kind of virtue.
Because I’m a man.
Because critique feels risky.
Because we’ve been taught that political caution is a kind of virtue.
Lauren Sánchez goes to space today.
She’s not the subject of the essay.
But she’s the shape of the question.
She’s not the subject of the essay.
But she’s the shape of the question.
April 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Lauren Sánchez goes to space today.
She’s not the subject of the essay.
But she’s the shape of the question.
She’s not the subject of the essay.
But she’s the shape of the question.
It’s about a certain kind of woman—glossed, adjacent to power, rarely challenged.
We call her out of touch.
We don’t call her complicit.
We call her out of touch.
We don’t call her complicit.
April 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
It’s about a certain kind of woman—glossed, adjacent to power, rarely challenged.
We call her out of touch.
We don’t call her complicit.
We call her out of touch.
We don’t call her complicit.
@karaswisher.bsky.social opened the conversation.This is part of what comes next.🔗 whatholdsstill.substack.com/p/beautiful-...
Beautiful, Billionaire-Adjacent and Above Critique
The women orbiting power who almost never get a headline that sticks.
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April 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
@karaswisher.bsky.social opened the conversation.This is part of what comes next.🔗 whatholdsstill.substack.com/p/beautiful-...
I launched What Holds Still today with an essay I almost didn’t publish.Not because others haven’t spoken—but because I wasn’t sure I had anything new to add.But this isn’t new data. It’s new language—for what many of us already see and rarely name.🔗 whatholdsstill.substack.com
What Holds Still | Armie Eros Fletcher | Substack
A newsletter about power, participation and the parts of us that remain. Click to read What Holds Still, by Armie Eros Fletcher, a Substack publication. Launched 27 minutes ago.
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April 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I launched What Holds Still today with an essay I almost didn’t publish.Not because others haven’t spoken—but because I wasn’t sure I had anything new to add.But this isn’t new data. It’s new language—for what many of us already see and rarely name.🔗 whatholdsstill.substack.com